Hegseth Sends Top Secret Attack Plans to Journalist - By Mistake

Exhibit A for why MAGA politicians and the right wing media state such blatant and easily disproven lies. Once you say them, your supporters can choose to believe them no matter how preposterous. Writer hasn't walked back his story? No matter - just say he has and gullible people will believe it. Blatantly obvious classified information was shared? Just say it wasn't classified and watch the gaslighting spread.

 

I don’t. Enough damage w/o putting more war fighters and CIA sources at risk. You really don’t understand what happened here, do you?

 

But was any of the texts labeled "War Plan"? If not, even if the texts contained operational details including what weapons, targets, and timing, as long as nobody calls it a war plan, it wasn't a war plan! Am I doing this right, MAGA?!?

 

you libs crack me up- you stood silently by while brain dead joey just about ruined this country

 

Cons are currently fanning Nero's flames but the corruption, stupidity and illegal acts of the felon will soon catch up to him.

 

I notice that this is not an answer. Almost like you don't have an answer to the question and just repeated the claim with no critical thinking.

 

I'll say this, respect to the MAGA folks on the board who haven't bothered to even attempt to spin anything on this thread. I'll take it as a sign of progress that THIS was one of the places they would indeed draw the line (because there's no way to frame this as anything other than blatant, reckless incompetence)

 

You must not have read the last two pages in this thread.

 

Leavitt Slams Journalist Added to Signal Chat About Houthis

 

She essentially regurgitated what both Hegseth and Trump said about Jeffrey Goldberg. He's a very well respected journalist although I guess the only strategy left when you cannot rebut the message is to attack the messenger.

Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor in chief of The Atlantic and the moderator of Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS. He joined The Atlantic in 2007 national correspondent and in 2016 was named the 15th editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, which was founded in 1857. In 2022 and 2023, The Atlantic won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence; this is the highest honor bestowed by the magazine industry. Under his leadership, The Atlantic has won the first Pulitzer Prizes in its history—three over the past three years—and set new audience and subscription records during his editorship. In 2020, Goldberg was named editor of the year by Adweek, which also named The Atlantic magazine of the year.

Before joining The Atlantic, Goldberg served as the Middle East correspondent and then the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. Earlier in his career, he was a writer for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He began his career as a police reporter for The Washington Post. Goldberg is the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror. A former fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, he also served as a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and as the distinguished visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Goldberg is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for Reporting, the Daniel Pearl Award for Reporting, the Overseas Press Club’s award for human-rights reporting, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Prize for best investigative reporting.
Jeffrey Goldberg

 

I hope that journalist has arranged for extra security. The brownshirts will be after him.

 

Will someone just man up and take responsibility? Everyone in this debacle looks weak and whiny.

 

Trump sez:
“I don’t think he should apologize. I think he’s doing his best,” Trump said. “It’s equipment and technology that’s not perfect. And, probably he won’t be using it again. At least not in the very near future.”

At least he didn't blame it on Biden, DEI, or the Deep State. It's the technology, people! How could anyone possibly understand how group chats work? What a dinosaur.

 

“If this was someone on active duty, their career would be completely over and they would be facing jail time most likely just because of the nature of this, of using the inappropriate system, never mind the fact that it demonstrates recklessness,”

When rank-and-file troops leak secrets, they often go to jail.

 

I would assume so but now they’re claiming the info wasn’t classified. No idea if it was or not. Guess that’s their “out”.